THE GIBBONS. 



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whiskers and beard; elsewhere the colour is entirely black. 

 Length of the body, 26 inches. 



Distriljxition. — Siam. 



Hal3its. — This rare species is very active and gentle in con- 

 finement. It will hang suspended, as Martin observed in the 

 first specimen brought to Europe, from a branch for the whole 

 day, except when asleep or reposing. 



The type specimen was described in 1840, — its skin being 

 preserved in the British Museum; but it was not till 1877 — 

 after a lapse of thirty-seven years — that a second specimen was 

 brought to this country. It was sent to the Zoological Gardens 

 by Mr. VV. H. Newman, H.B.M. Consul at Bankok. 



IV. THE WHITE-HANDED GIBBON. HYLOBATES LAR. 



Homo lar, Linn., Mantiss. Plant., App., p. 521 (17 71). 



Simia longimatia^ Wagner in Schreb. Saugeth. i., p. ^^^ pi. iii,, 

 figs. I, 2 (1775) ; Erxl, Syst. Reg. An., p. 9 (1777). 



Simia lar, Bodd., Elench. An., p. 55 (1785); Fischer, Syn. 

 Mamm,, p. 12 (1829; in part). 



Pitheats lar, Latr., Hist. Nat. Buff., xxxvi., p. 276 (1809). 



Pithecus varitts, Latr., op. et loc. cit. 



Pithecus variegatus, Geoffr., Ann. Mus., xix., p. 88 (181 2). 



Hylobates lar, Illig., Abhandl. Akad. Berl., p. 88 (1815) ; Martin, 

 Mammif. Anim., pp. 416, 433 (1841); Blyth, J. A. S. 

 Beng., x., p. 838 (1841); Gray, Cat. Monkeys Brit. Mus., 

 p. 10 (1870) ; Scl., P. Z. S., 1870, p. Z6, pi. v. ; Schlegel, 

 Mus. Pays-Bas, vii., p. 15 (1876); Anders., Zool. Res. 

 Exped. Yun-nan, p. 5 (1878 ; with full synonymy); Blan- 

 ford, Faun. Brit. Ind., Mamm., p. 7 (1891). 



